Erich Fromm Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Birthday, Character

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

• Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Attitude, Character

• Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
  Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Fall, Passion

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

• A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Simple, Order

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.131, Open Road Media

• The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste.
  But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Differences, Confusion

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Routledge

• The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Character, Parent

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.618, Open Road Media

• Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Successful, Battle

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.387, Open Road Media

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